Press Releases

October 1, 2007

One of the great landmarks in the history of science—and of humanity—occurred when J. Craig Venter, a leading scientist of the twenty-first century and a pioneer in the world of genomic research, published the first sequence and analysis of the human genome. What made this event so remarkable was not only the bravura of the accomplishment itself, but the fact that it was achieved earlier and for less money than the government-sponsored Human Genome Project. A LIFE DECODED: My Genome: My Life (Viking; On-sale: October 22, 2007; $25.95) is J. Craig Venter’s triumphant true story of one of the greatest feats of our era—mapping the human genome.

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